DFSee documentation and HOWTO

DFSee detailed menusystem documentation

Compiled from the actual DFSee applications menu-system and help-pages,
there is a seperate chapter for each of the pull-down menus.

The DFSee menu documentation is a
complete reference to every menu-item in the DFSee menu, both BASIC and EXPERT,
including the help-screens for every item as well as hundreds
of screen-shots documenting the flow of many DFSee functions and showing many of the dialogs.
Browsing through this reference is probably the fastest and safest
way to learn about the capabilities of the DFSee program.

DFSee help system and other information sources

DFSee is in no way an 'easy to use' program, however there is lots of material available
that helps even the casual user with most tasks to be performed.
In general people look for two very different kinds of help when using the program:

HOWTO, as in: How do I do this ?
Where the this is some high level description of a user problem

This is hard to catch in built-in help systems or systematic program descriptions since
it starts in the problem rather than the solution domain,
and is often expressed in terms that do not relate directly to DFSee functionality.
It is addressed for DFSee to some extent by providing a summary of HOWTO
chapters and by directing users to on-line fora and the public
DFSee support forum at Yahoo.

And as a last resort you can always call in private help of
DFSee support through email, but be aware that that
could take some time to get answers.

HELP, as in: What does this DO ?
Where the this is some DFSee menu item of command

This is much easier to answer in a systematic way than the HOW
kind of questions, and several mechanisms for DFSee exist:

For menu items (and most other selection lists), there is a full line of description
at the bottom of the screen, so you get a little more info than just the item text alone.
Be sure to use this info! For lists of disks, partition or files, it will have additional
information like (file/partition) sizes and type, that does not fit in the list display itself.

There is a Help top level menu that lists several useful things like
commandline switches, sector and partition types, scripting keywords and variables,
keyboard usage for several areas in DFsee
as well as providing some high level help on the user interface and about DFSee.

For al menu-items, but also for most dialogs or even fields or buttons in a dialog,
there is context sensitive help that can be called with the <F1> key.
This will pop-up a helptext dialog screen with a brief multi-line description on the topic.
Pressing <F1> again often provides a higher level help on the same topic,
and using it a third time will give some help on the (TxWin) user interface itself, with
information on shortcut and navigation keys, mouse usage and so on.

The help information on menu items has also been made available on the DFSee website
with chapters for each main-menu item

There are some presentations on DFSee itself, and on the subject of partitioning
and filesystems that give some good background information on these topics (see below).

Or just click the top left screen-shot in the top-left of any DFSee page